Poll: Got iPhone?

[SirSchmoopy]

I don't want my phone and my music on the same battery. Much rather just get an itouch and a phone if I really wanted one.

 

[Specter_]

I only really want a phone for my phone. I could care less about all of the extra things that it might do.

this and to quote Least I Could Do:

I do not believe in Apple and i hope that every time i say this a Mac-user dies.

 

[InProgress]

I don't even have a mobile, and my money would better be invested in a laptop and an old and cheap mobile phone (in case I needed one). Monochromne FTW!

 

[TwistedEllipses]

I'm fine with my 5 year old phone thanks...

 

[IndieRocker]

I've an iTouch does that count

 

[mkb07a]

Every incoming freshman and transfer student at my university received one this school year. Oh yes. I go to that school.

 

[cleverlymadeup]

- Based on UNIX, so ostensibly should be able to multitask... it can't.

most phones don't do this, so it's a moot point

- Where's the copy-and-paste function? Uh oh.

what phone does? even the e71 doesn't uh oh

- You see that keyboard layout that's at the bottom of your screen? Microsoft worked out a better layout years ago, and even Palm OS has a superior touch-screen keyboard.

you mean the qwerty keyboard everyone uses? it's actually one of the better ones and it has a handy spell check that works most of the time, better than t9

- The iPhone OS has more bloat than a ruminant with a stomach problem. Face it. Your OS sucks.

the only app that has bad mem management is safari but that's kinda across the board with that browser

 

[Jurnigan]

I'm a G1 man. It's not bad, but the software glitches and those T-Mobile guys who charge you 2x your normal bill make an iPhone look very attractive. I was originally charged $120 over what I should have been last month, but got it dropped down to what it should be.

 

[Berethond]

I dislike Apple.

Which is code for saying that they're disgusting spawn of toads.
So I don't have an iPhone.

 

[orifice]

No, and don't want one.

 

[Alex_P]

- Based on UNIX, so ostensibly should be able to multitask... it can't.

most phones don't do this, so it's a moot point

- Where's the copy-and-paste function? Uh oh.

what phone does? even the e71 doesn't uh oh

Lack of multitasking and inability to copy/paste aren't trivial issues. They deeply limit what you can actually do with the phone. Any smartphone that can't do these things is a pile of crap. (Yes, that does mean pretty much all smartphones are crap. Including the Nokia E-whatever if it can't copy and paste.)

-- Alex

 

[DrunkenKitty]

The only people that complain about iPhones are people that don't have one. Classic sour grapes syndrome.

Everyone I know with an iPhone loves it, including me.

 

[Lord Beautiful]

I only really want a phone for my phone. I could care less about all of the extra things that it might do.

this and to quote Least I Could Do:

I do not believe in Apple and i hope that every time i say this a Mac-user dies.

No one can question the Tao of Rayne.

 

[Joeshie]

I'm not a trendy hipster who wears tight jeans and takes my iMac to Starbucks so I can drink my $8 dollar coffee to show everyone how cool and hip I am.




If that didn't tip you off, my answer is no and I don't have any plans of picking one up.

 

[thedirtymex]

they tried and failed...
the N96 does more and the bat lasts for more that a day in use...

when they release one with 5mp camera and kick ass bat life with expandable memory. I wont hesitate to buy one.

 

[Alex_P]

The only people that complain about iPhones are people that don't have one. Classic sour grapes syndrome.

Everyone I know with an iPhone loves it, including me.

Bullshit.

I bought an iPhone because I enjoyed playing around with my friends' and they were very happy with them.

I took it back only 18 hours later.

All the apps are worthless because you can only ever run one at a time. I can't IM someone and look up directions at the same time. Unless you count having the IM session shut down and restarted later as "at the same time". (Speaking of which, how about a real first-party IM client that comes with the phone? Apple already wrote one for OS X.) I can't read a document and chat about it at the same time.

Basically the only way to do anything concurrently is to just run everything in browser tabs -- of course, the browser seems to just reload the whole page if you've been away for more than ten seconds, which makes it pretty hard to actually use any kind of little in-browser application (like, for example, if you want to actually chat and browse rather than just chatting in your browser). Oh, and you lose your place in a document, too, which makes it hard to actually tab away from something and go back to where you left off.

Then there was the absence of copy/paste. I can't post links to a forum because there's no copy/paste. I can't grab an address off a website because there is no copy/paste. And Apple doesn't care. They're not interested in changing that in the least. Because they know what's good for you. And, evidently, copy/paste is not good for you.

And, like I said, every other smartphone that works this way sucks, too. It's an absolutely crippled experience. The developers spent so much time figuring out ways to make the Internet tolerable on such a small screen but then pissed it all away with these other restrictions -- restrictions that a piece of modern technology, even an ultraportable one, shouldn't be forcing on you.

Of course, there are notable ways in which the iPhone is different from other smartphones, too. For example, iPhones also don't let you switch out the battery. Why do you think they did that? Maybe it's so they can gouge you every year or two?

-- Alex

 

[Souplex]

Whenever I touch an apple product I feel a burning sensation and smell what can only be described as burning cat poo.

 

[Paragon Fury]

iPhone?

I don't even have a cell phone......

 

[Alex_P]

Uhh the Nokia E71 (along with all other S60 devices I believe) does copy and paste. And multitasking also has been a critical component to what makes smartphone smart.

Lulz.

The E71 does, however, have a tiny 320x240 px screen. This makes me unhappy.

-- Alex

 

[DrunkenKitty]

The only people that complain about iPhones are people that don't have one. Classic sour grapes syndrome.

Everyone I know with an iPhone loves it, including me.

Bullshit.

I bought an iPhone because I enjoyed playing around with my friends' and they were very happy with them.

I took it back only 18 hours later.

All the apps are worthless because you can only ever run one at a time. I can't IM someone and look up directions at the same time. Unless you count having the IM session shut down and restarted later as "at the same time". (Speaking of which, how about a real first-party IM client that comes with the phone? Apple already wrote one for OS X.) I can't read a document and chat about it at the same time.

Basically the only way to do anything concurrently is to just run everything in browser tabs -- of course, the browser seems to just reload the whole page if you've been away for more than ten seconds, which makes it pretty hard to actually use any kind of little in-browser application (like, for example, if you want to actually chat and browse rather than just chatting in your browser). Oh, and you lose your place in a document, too, which makes it hard to actually tab away from something and go back to where you left off.

Then there was the absence of copy/paste. I can't post links to a forum because there's no copy/paste. I can't grab an address off a website because there is no copy/paste. And Apple doesn't care. They're not interested in changing that in the least. Because they know what's good for you. And, evidently, copy/paste is not good for you.

And, like I said, every other smartphone that works this way sucks, too. It's an absolutely crippled experience. The developers spent so much time figuring out ways to make the Internet tolerable on such a small screen but then pissed it all away with these other restrictions -- restrictions that a piece of modern technology, even an ultraportable one, shouldn't be forcing on you.

Of course, there are notable ways in which the iPhone is different from other smartphones, too. For example, iPhones also don't let you switch out the battery. Why do you think they did that? Maybe it's so they can gouge you every year or two?

-- Alex

I don't disagree. Seems to me you need a laptop or a UMPC.

Though you haven't really proven me wrong. You dislike the iPhone and you don't have one. My statement was only wrong for the 18 hours that you owned one. It has since moved back into the realm of truth.